Computer Science and Statistics: Proceedings of the 13th Symposium on the Interface

ISBN-13: 9780387906331 / Angielski / Miękka / 1981 / 378 str.

W. Eddy

Spis treści

Keynote Address.- Statistical Theory and the Computer.- Automated Edit and Imputation.- Developing an Edit System for Industry Statistics.- Design of Experiments to Investigate Joint Distributions in Microanalytic Simulations.- Descriptive Statistics Used in Monitoring Edit and Imputation Processes.- Do Statistical Packages Have a Future?.- The Effect of Personal Computers on Statistical Practice.- Statistical Software Design and Scientific Breakthrough: Some Reflections on the Future.- Some Thoughts on Expert Software.- Fourier Transforms in Applied Statistics.- How Fast is the Fourier Transform?.- Polynomial Time Algorithms for Obtaining Permutation Distributions.- Efficient Estimation for the Stable Laws.- Algorithms and Statistics.- Applications of Statistics to Applied Algorithm Design.- Algorithms with Random Input.- Recent Results on the Average Time Behavior of Some Algorithms in Computational Geometry.- Genuinely Statistical Methods in the Theory of Algorithms.- Pattern Recognition.- Applications of Pattern Recognition Methods to Hydrologic Time Series.- Recent Advances in Bump Hunting.- Pattern Recognition in the Context of an Asbestos Cancer Threshold Study.- Histologic Patterns and Random Chromatic Graphs.- Volume Testing of Statistical Programs.- Volume Testing of Statistical/Database Software.- Scientific Information Retrieval (SIR/DBMS).- Volume Testing of Statistical Software — The Statistical Analysis System (SAS).- Solving Complex Database Problems in P-STAT.- Volume Testing of SPSS.- Volume Testing of Statistical Systems.- Random Number Generation.- In Search of Correlation in Multiplicative Congruential Generators with Modulus 231 — 1.- Portability Considerations for Random Number Generators.- Generating Discrete Random Variables in the Computer.- Generation of Random Variables by Thinning of Poisson Processes.- Understanding Time Series Analysis.- Recent Developments in Spectrum and Harmonic Analysis.- On Some Numerical Properties of ARMA Parameter Estimation Procedures.- Time Series Recursions and Self-Tuning Control.- Measurement and Evaluation of Software.- On Measurement and Evaluation of Software: A View from the Chair.- Can Statistical Methods Help Solve Problems in Software Measurement?.- Measuring the Performance of Computer Software — A Dual Role for Statisticians.- Software Metrics: Paradigms and Processes.- A Proposal for Structural Models of Software Systems.- Software Metrics: A Key to Improved Software Development Management.- Orthogonalization: An Alternative to Sweep.- Orthogonalization-Triangularization Methods in Statistical Computati ons.- Research Data Base Management.- Simple Query Language Requirements for Research Data Management.- Data Editing on Large Data Sets.- Data Archiving: A New(?) Set of Problems for Research Data Management Systems.- Graphical Methods and Their Software.- Census Bureau Statistical Graphics.- Mosaics for Contingency Tables.- The Use of Kinematic Displays to Represent High Dimensional Data.- Contributed Papers.- Order Statistics and an Experiment in Software Design.- Further Approximation to the Distributions of Some Transformations to the Sample Correlation Coefficient.- Using Linear Programming to Find Approximate Solutions to the Fields to Impute Problem for Industry Data.- Using Computer-Binned Data for Density Estimation.- On the Nonconsistency of Maximum Likelihood Nonparametric Density Estimators.- Computer Program for Krishnaiah’s Finite Intersection Tests for Multiple Comparisons of Mean Vectors.- Approximating the Log of the Normal Cumulative.- A Kth Nearest Neighbour Clustering Procedure.- Interactive Statistical Graphics: Breaking Away.- Interactive Graphical Analysis for Multivariate Data.- SLANG, A Statistical Language for Descriptive Time Series Analysis.- On the Parameter Estimation in Queueing Theory.- Statistical Computation with a Microcomputer.- On the Exact Distribution of Geary’s U-Statistic and its Application to Least Squares Regression.- Exposure to the Risk of an Accident: The Canadian Department of Transport National Driving Survey and Data Analysis System, 1978-79.- CONCOR: An Edit and Automatic Correction Package.- BGRAPH: A Program for Biplot Multivariate Graphics.- MONCOR--A Program to Compute Concordant and Other Monotone Correlations.- Computer Offerings for Statistical Graphics--An Overview.- Computing Percentiles of Large Data Sets.- A Self-Describing Data File Structure for Large Data Sets.- Nonlinear Estimation Using a Microcomputer.- Statistical Procedures for Low Dose Extrapolation of Quanta! Response Toxicity Data.- An Economic Design of Y-Charts with Warning Limits to Control Non-Normal Process Means.- Prior Probabilities, Maximal Posterior, and Minimal Field Error Localization.